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...biggest loss was that of Mellon Professor of Divinity Krister Stendahl, who announced plans to leave Harvard this September to become the Bishop of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden Stendahl, who came to Harvard from Sweden 30 years ago, is one of the world's foremost authorities on The New Testament, and he served as dean of the school from...
Illinois-born Turner, who lives in Stockholm with her Swedish boyfriend when she is not training, has been a kayak gypsy since she was 17. "It takes six to eight years to get really good," she says. She made the Olympic teams in 1976 and '80, supporting herself by lifeguarding, teaching school and selling handmade sweaters and caps. Every dollar and krona she has earned, she says, has gone into kayaking; "I've never bought a stereo...
...time of Yuri Andropov's death, his unassuming, English-speaking son was serving as assistant to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Stockholm conference on European security. His new assignment, which needs formal Greek approval, may be considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a NATO member, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has opposed the alliance's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Greece recently provoked Washington's ire by describing the U.S. as "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." Papandreou has also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable...
Western diplomats who met privately with Gromyko at the Stockholm Conference on Confidence-and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe last January found him keeping three Reagan speeches close at hand. The text of the President's "focus of evil" address seemed to be particularly dog-eared. Gromyko's repeated references to those speeches underscored the degree to which the U.S. President's slaps at Soviet power and prestige have stirred anger and animosity in Moscow. Few Soviet officials like to be reminded that they once considered Reagan a potential "closet" Nixon who might correct the foreign policy zigzags...
...document criticized various individuals, including Rowny's principal deputy, James Goodby, who was declared suspect on grounds of being too eager for an agreement. (Goodby subsequently left the START delegation and now heads the American negotiating team at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, which meets in Stockholm.) Adelman's nomination was al ready in trouble in the Senate; it was approved only after vigorous lobbying by the White House. Now a number of legislators called for Rowny's dismissal. Congressman Aspin, who was emerging as a key moderate in the fight to save the MX, warned...